Health Care
We Need to End Obstetric Fistula
Obstetric fistula is almost entirely preventable yet flourishes in places where health care is inaccessible for too many women
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Health Care
Now There Are Better Ways Than BMI Charts to Assess Health Risks
The body mass index is flawed, and medicine now has better options to measure obesity
Health Care
Breath Of Life: Bridging the Oxygen Gap in Kenya
After COVID devastated Kenya, oxygen prices began to skyrocket, causing people to lose their life. Ruth Wambui, a nurse-entrepreneur, set out to bridge the oxygen gap in the country.
Health Care
Do Fainter Lines on Home COVID Tests Mean You’re Getting Better?
The colors of lines on COVID tests can show whether you’re getting healthy or staying sick—if they’re interpreted the right way
Health Care
A New Type of Heart Disease is on the Rise
Problems with the heart, kidneys and metabolic health are all connected
Health Care
How the War in Gaza Has Devastated Hospitals
The Israel-Hamas war has disrupted hospitals’ access to electricity, fuel and medicine. A physician from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières explains why health care is so vulnerable during war...
Vaccines
Why COVID Vaccines for Young Children Have Been Hard to Get
Access to pediatric COVID vaccines has been hampered by a shortage of doses, higher costs to providers and parental skepticism
Health Care
A Black Physician Takes on Racism in Medicine
Physician Uché Blackstock talks about her experience of the huge health disparities faced by Black Americans in her new book Legacy
Health Care
New Pill Helps COVID Smell and Taste Loss Fade Quickly
The antiviral drug ensitrelvir, which has not been approved outside of Japan, shortens sensory problems
Epidemiology
The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios’ new book The Black Angels chronicles the history of the nurses of Sea View Hospital and the cure for tuberculosis
Pharmaceuticals
Should Insurance Cover Wegovy, Ozempic and Other New Weight-Loss Drugs?
Insurance plans could cover blockbuster weight-loss medications such as Wegovy and Ozempic, but the benefits may not be accessible to everyone
Physiology
Your Body Odor Could Be Used to Track Your Movements or Health
Human scent signatures could one day be collected at places like crime scenes and COVID testing sites
Health Care
Climate Disasters Are Worsening a U.S. Blood Shortage
This summer’s floods, hurricanes and wildfires have prevented blood collection at a time when U.S. hospitals are already low on supply
Health Care
The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity
Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create
Health Care
How to Address ‘Medical Gaslighting’
When doctors tell a patient “It’s all in your head,” that’s medical gaslighting. Here’s how to address an issue that disproportionately impacts the health of women, LGBTQ individuals and the elderly...
Health Care
What More Can We Do for Patients?
Taking action to deliver on our commitment
Health Care
Innovations In: Environmental Health Equity
A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice
Pharmaceuticals
What Biden’s Drug Price Negotiations Mean for You
Ten medications, costing tens of billions of dollars, will be the first to be subject to Medicare price negotiations
Health Care
Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims
Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science
